TRIUMPH FOR SVS STRÖCK

06.06.2014

Foto: K.Bartuschek

Great
day for WSA partners club SVS STRÖCK. The
team secured in a duel with the freshly baked French champions Lille Pongiste
the victory in the ETTU Cup and gained the first major international title in
the first four years of club history.

The
3-2 win in the first final in Lille 14 days ago was followed by a breathtaking
thriller at the Werner Schlager Academy that at its end was a 3-2 victory for
Lille.

Also,
the rate ratio did not yield any decision in favor of either team (17:17), so each
item had to be counted. This
319:296 had SVS STRÖCK in the lead and in the end shouting and cheering at
European champion Li Fen, Petra Lovas, Tetyana Bilenko and Daniela Dodean (who
had to be re-operated on knee a few days before, therefore could not play and will
have to pause till October).

The
whole team and the coaches Aya Umemura and Tamara Boros deserve applause
without end.

And
big thanks also to the loyal sponsors of the team: the bakery STRÖCK, the
Province of Lower Austria, Sportland NÖ and the sports outfitter Butterfly.

In
just four years SVS STRÖCK has become a true trademark in the European women
table tennis and is on par with Champions League winners TTC Berlin Eastside
and Fenerbahce Istanbul. These
should be the three teams that will shape Europe's women table tennis in the
next years or decades.